The local prosecutor on Friday submitted a total of 63 criminal criminal charges against three employees during July 10, 2018 a tourist boat accident on Missouri lake which killed 17 people.
The fee was filed in Batu Regency against the captain, General Manager and manager on duty on the accident’s day to ride the attraction of the duck at the Rock Lake table near The Tourist Mecca in Branson.
The cost of captain Kenneth Scott McKee, from Verona, General Manager Curtis Lanham, from Galena, and Task Manager Charles Baltzell, from Kirbyville, came seven months after the federal judge who was dismissed by the Federal Prosecutor, concluded that they did not have jurisdiction that did not have Jurisdiction.
McKee faced 29 charges, including 17 accidental murder accusations of the first level.
A written statement from an Sergeant Patrol Highway Missouri accused him of failing to carry out his duties as captain licensed by taking his amphibious vehicle to the lake during the storm.
“We are reviewing the allegations, hoping innocence will be included and will continue to represent McKee, ” JR Hobbs and Marilyn B Keller, who represented the captain, said in a statement.
Baltzell and Lanham face each of the first -degree unintentional murder.
Accused of failing to communicate weather conditions and failed to stop the operation during a severe lightning storm warning.
Lawyers for Baltzell and Lanham did not immediately return telephone messages who were looking for comments.
The cost was announced by the Matt Selby Crime Crime and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt.
Thirty-one people are On the boat when the duck boat entered the lake.
A storm suddenly appeared and the waves flooded the boat before they could return to the beach.
Four people survived.
Dead it included nine family members from Indianapolis.
Another victim comes from Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas.
Wahana on the lake in the former World War II vehicle first draw popular in Daer Ah Branson in Missouri southwest.
Ripley Entertainment, who has a former World War II vehicle, settled 31 lawsuits related to the sinking.
3 men are charged more than 2018 fatal Missouri tourists
